Still one more day til Halloween (Silver Shamrock!), but as this will be the final Today in Film Bloggery post ever on SpoutBlog, it’s my only opportunity to do a roundup of what the blogs are posting this week related to the holiday of candy and costumes.
I’ll actually be dressing up as something non-film-related tomorrow (”Moss” from UK series The IT Crowd), but I do plan on watching some horror flicks (including Paranormal Activity), which I rarely do, on Halloween or any other day. Maybe if I’m feeling academic — and since my present job situation has me aiming to get my PhD in cinema studies — I’ll break out Mary Ann Sloan’s essay “Film and the Masquerade” and attempt to make it relative to the festivities (I know, it’s a real stretch).
What will you be doing? Comment with your film-related costumes and/or plans after checking out what the film blogs are posting Halloween-related after the jump:
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The most popular lists on SpoutBlog have involved sex scenes or Halloween costumes. So, to give the people what they want we’ve decided to combine both topics for our final list ever. It makes sense anyway, seeing as how Halloween is this weekend and seeing as how the holiday has pretty much turned into a sex-based festivity — for adults, at least.
Surprisingly, with all the cosplay fans and other fetishists out there, sex scenes involving costumes aren’t too common. We’ve tried to exclude anything considered a uniform or transvestism, as neither of these is about masquerading. There are two job-related costumes, however, but both have been deemed qualified. And the single example of cross-dressing is more about disguise than transgenderism.
Feel free to add to the list if you think of any that we left out.
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The Telegraph is reporting––two months late, oddly, but I never heard about it so I guess I can’t point fingers––on an over-the-top Star Wars themed wedding, wherein 70+ guests arrived dressed as various members of the Lucasian universe. The whole thing took nine months to plan, the ceremony was performed by Yoda, and the ring bearer was dressed as Slave Leia (don’t get too excited–based on photo evidence, she was a good twenty years older than the average ring bearer).
Blah blah blah, right? Well, I’m a total Star Wars non-believer, but after reading the Telegraph story, I stumbled on the Flickr feed for the wedding, and even I have to admit that it’s pretty impressive. There are TWELVE HUNDRED PHOTOS documenting the ceremony, the costumes, the make-up touch ups, the lightsaber battles at the reception, etc. If you’re going to get married, you might as well do it with a gimmick, and if you’re going to have a gimmick, theres something sort of admirable about such batshit insane commitment to said gimmick.
